Facebook Extends Platform to the Web — I surely did not see this coming anytime soon but Facebook just released their JavaScript client library than enables developers to extend their applications to their own websites. Rather than building your applications strictly within Facebook …

Amazon to Begin International Rollout of Amazon MP3 in 2008 — Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that in 2008 the company will begin an international rollout of Amazon MP3, Amazon's DRM-free MP3 digital music store where every song is playable on virtually any digital music-capable device …

Amazon MP3 store to spread DRM-free love global in 2008 — In perhaps the biggest threat to Apple's global dominance of digital music, Amazon just announced the international rollout of Amazon MP3. Right, the on-line storefront offering DRM-free music from all four major labels.

The Pirate Bay Breaks 10 Million Users — The Pirate Bay is no stranger to making history, and today is no different. In an achievement that conjures an achievement from the annals of file-sharing history, The Pirate Bay has broken an impressive milestone.

The Coming Wave of Gadgets That Listen and Obey — INNOVATION usually needs time to steep. Time to turn the idea into something tangible, time to get it to market, time for people to decide they accept it. Speech recognition technology has steeped for a long time: Mike Phillips remembers …

Bank turns London man into RFID-enabled guinea pig — The Halifax bank is enrolling unsuspecting customers in trials of a new generation of RFID-enabled bank cards, and trying to keep them in the program even if they have mis-givings about the wave and pay technology.

Thanks, Gutenberg - but we're too pressed for time to read — The First Law of Technology says we invariably overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies while underestimating their longer-term effects. The invention of printing in the 15th century had an extraordinary short-term impact …

Microchips Everywhere: a Future Vision — Here's a vision of the not-so-distant future: — _Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer items _ and, by extension, consumers _ wherever they go, from a distance.

Thank you Yossi Vardi — Yossi Vardi has made my time here in Davos simply incredible. I am in deeply in his debt for what he's personally done for me. The Shabbat dinner he took me to last night was simply incredible. I filmed an intimate traditional ceremony there.

Freed From the Page, but a Book Nonetheless — PRINTED books provide pleasures no device created by an electrical engineer can match. The sweet smell of a brand-new book. The tactile pleasures of turning a page. The reassuring sight on one's bookshelves of personal journeys.